Idea of Civil Society

Name: Idea of Civil Society
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ISBN: 9780029283158

ISBN-10: 0029283159

ISBN-13: 9780029283158

Edition: 1992

Authors: Adam B. Seligman

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Seligman examines the notion of the civil society. He argues that the combination of individal rights and interests with a social and political system based on a shared morality found its clearest concrete expression in 18th-century America. Since then, successive societies and social experiments have sought in vain to approximate to the society in which individual interests and the public good are identical. The problems of modern mass democracies which require intense centralization to be functional, and the growth of socialism and the notion of unearned entitlements have served to undermine the foundations of the civil society.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/28/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 241
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Modern Idea of Civil Society


The Sources of Civil Society: Reason and the Individual


Civil Society, Citizenship, and the Representation of Society


Jerusalem, Budapest, Los Angeles: In Search of Civil Society


Concluding Remarks on Civil Society


Notes


Index